A richly diverse selection from the original garden writings produced by the quarterly periodical Hortus over the last twenty-one years. 'Some of the best garden writing you could find anywhere.' Anna Pavord, The Independent 'Offering the finest garden writing in the English language.' The Daily Telegraph 'What a relief to read lean, sturdy sentences ...to see gardening as part of civilisation, bound up in commerce, science, art and literature.' The New York Times